Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Welfare and Poverty 1
5. 2. The Past Is Prologue 10
6. 3. The Problem of Poverty, the Problem of Work 32
7. 4. Setting the Poor to Work 56
8. 5. The Return to the States: Changing Social Behavior 89
9. 6. The Current Reform Proposals 110
10. 7. Another Exercise in Symbolic Politics 139
11. Notes 153
12. Index 169